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Navy Taps Georgia Tech’s Research Arm to Help Study Swarm Heterogeneity

Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp. has landed a $35.2 million contract to help the U.S. Navy study the feasibility of heterogeneous sensor swarms for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. GTARC will work under the Heterogeneous Autonomy Prototyping Evolution effort and investigate how a multi-modal, heterogeneous swarm architecture can support target detection and ISR activities through […] More

by Nichols Martin January 14, 2022, 11:50 am
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Sigma Defense Launches New Website, Logo in Brand Identity Update; Matt Jones Quoted

Sigma Defense Systems has introduced a new corporate brand identity to underscore the company’s growth and service offering innovation. The Perry, Georgia-based technology company announced Friday the debut of a redesigned logo and website depicting a flow between digital and physical properties and relating feelings of motion and connection to reflect collaborative progress. Matt Jones According to […] More

by Charles Lyons-Burt January 14, 2022, 11:48 am
in Artificial Intelligence, News

Booz Allen VP Joe Shepherd: AI is Now a Military Necessity

Joe Shepherd, vice president of directed energy innovation at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the modern era necessitates the use of artificial intelligence in military operations. Computing power allows militaries to further build on gathered data, make intelligence-based decisions and support other modern technologies including directed energy, he wrote in a piece National Defense Magazine published […] More

by Nichols Martin January 10, 2022, 11:53 am
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Lockheed Books $286M MDA Contract Modification to Support Saudi Arabia’s THAAD

Lockheed Martin has secured a $286.5 million contract modification with the Missile Defense Agency to continue helping Saudi Arabia maintain and operate its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The company will provide equipment, spare parts and support services to support ground production, maintenance, software updates, training and logistics of Saudi Arabia’s THAAD under the […] More

by Nichols Martin December 17, 2021, 11:31 am
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Lockheed Awarded $78M Air Force Contract for F-16 Training Systems

Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business has landed a potential six-year, $77.6 million sole-source contract from the U.S. Air Force to supply training systems for F-16 Block 70 jets of foreign military sales customers. The company will engineer, develop, produce, integrate, test and deliver training equipment and spare parts in support of two Eastern […] More

by Nichols Martin December 16, 2021, 11:47 am
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Huntington Ingalls Awarded $71M Navy Deal for Ship Long Lead Time Material

The U.S. Navy has issued a $70.9 million sole-source award to Huntington Ingalls Industries to procure long lead time material of an amphibious assault ship. The undefinitized contract action marks the seventh LLTM increment under an HII-held contract issued on April 30, 2020, the Department of Defense said Monday. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division will use […] More

by Nichols Martin December 14, 2021, 11:43 am
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Parsons to Prototype Satellite Ground Ops Center Under DARPA Contract

Parsons‘ government services business will prototype a ground operations center for a satellite system under a $10.8 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA issued the phase three contract for the Blackjack Prototype Ground Operations Center as part of the Small Business Innovation Research program, the Department of Defense said Friday. The […] More

by Nichols Martin December 13, 2021, 11:44 am
in Government Technology, News

Curtiss-Wright to Supply Open-Systems Processor Tech for Raytheon Aircraft Project; Lynn Bamford Quoted

Raytheon Technologies has selected Curtiss-Wright to supply a modular open-systems approach processor and networking modules for what would be the central processing component of a special operations aircraft. Curtiss-Wright said Monday its MOSA technology will support the Next Generation Special Mission Processor for the U.S. Air Force’s AC/MC-130J platforms. NextGen SMP builds on an open-computing […] More

by Nichols Martin September 28, 2021, 11:45 am
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Janie Robinson Appointed Descartes Labs Government Business Head

Janie Robinson, a two-decade public and private sector veteran, has been named head of government business at geospatial analytics company Descartes Labs. She will oversee the development of geospatial intelligence products and services designed to support agency missions, Descartes Labs said Wednesday. Robinson spent seven years at the Department of Defense, which she initially joined […] More

by Angeline Leishman September 23, 2021, 11:47 am
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4 Companies Win Spots on $69M USMC Vehicle Test, Evaluation Contract

Four companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $69 million contract to test and evaluate amphibious and ground combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. MCSC, which functions as the acquisition unit of the U.S. Marine Corps, received seven offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering support services to the Marine Corps Systems Command […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman September 20, 2021, 11:37 am
in Industry News, News, Space News

L3Harris Completes Expansion in Indiana to Support Satellite Programs; Ed Zoiss Quoted

L3Harris Technologies has announced the expansion of its missile defense satellite workforce and asset at its Fort Wayne campus in Indiana to address the Department of Defense’s growing need for resilient spacecraft. The now 150,000-foot classified campus will host engineering, integration, testing and program management in support of satellite programs and U.S. missile defense efforts, […] More

by Angeline Leishman September 17, 2021, 11:39 am
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Military Vets John Abizaid, Robert Schmidle Join Epirus Advisory Board

Venture-backed defense technology startup Epirus has appointed military veterans John Abizaid and Robert Schmidle to the company’s advisory board. The appointments come as the company aims to address the Department of Defense’s need for technologies that counter unmanned aircraft system threats, Epirus said Monday. A West Point graduate, Abizaid spent 34 years at the U.S. […] More

by Nichols Martin September 14, 2021, 12:05 am